{"id":209532,"date":"2025-10-13T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:49:09","slug":"alerts-issued-as-extreme-drought-expands-across-atlantic-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209532\/","title":{"rendered":"Alerts issued as extreme drought expands across Atlantic Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The period between July and September was the driest ever recorded in several communities, including in:<\/p>\n

Amherst, N.S., where only 70.4 mm of rain fell;<\/p>\n

Greenwood, N.S., which only saw 65.4 mm of rain;<\/p>\n

Summerside, P.E.I., with only 97.8 mm of rain during the three-month period<\/p>\n

\"Atlantic<\/p>\n

Worsening drought has taken a toll on the region\u2019s agricultural industry. Crops are stressed and farmers are facing reduced yields<\/a> due to the lack of rainfall. Some of the crops hit hardest, according to the Canadian Drought Monitor, include apples, corn, blueberries, pumpkins, and potatoes.<\/p>\n

The dearth of precipitation here is so significant that some small waterways have dried up in Nova Scotia, and mandatory water restrictions<\/a> are in effect in and around Dartmouth.<\/p>\n

RELATED: What is a state of emergency? How these orders help in a crisis<\/a><\/p>\n

The community of Hughes Brooks, Newfoundland, recently declared a state of emergency<\/a> due to its water levels running critically low.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe State of Emergency and Water Conservation Order remain in effect to ensure levels don\u2019t drop significantly over the Thanksgiving weekend,\u201d the town said on Facebook<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ridges, tropics have kept the region dry<\/p>\n

Why haven\u2019t we seen much rain throughout the eastern third of the country over the past few months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The period between July and September was the driest ever recorded in several communities, including in: Amherst, N.S.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,6091,295,3613,6765,66],"class_list":["post-209532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-maritimes","tag-newfoundland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}